IISZ 2018 Challenge #5 - The Queen's Dreams

[rayheinrich]

Art is not beauty, it is the lie that leads to it.  - Leonora Carrington

   

    Hey!, you people from the future: These Challenges are forever!   Feel free to add something new.
    For links to all the Challenges, just click the P.S. button below:

    Challenge #1 - Cut Up Folktale can be found here.
    Challenge #2 - Death by Words can be found here.
    Challenge #3 - Utterly Mistaken can be found here.
    Challenge #4 - Word Dog Run can be found here.
    Challenge #5 - Queen's Dreams can be found here.
    Challenge #X - Bucket Brigade can be found here.

   

   
    "Last Night" - Jacek Yerka

    The Queen, when she gets up in the morning and remembers a dream, tries to write it down.
    But most times she only remembers a scene, an object, something said, something that
    happened, something she felt.

    Challenge #5

    This challenge is about interpreting the Queen's dreams.  Look below to find some of the
    things she's written down upon waking and write a poem(s) or prose about it that expands
    the dream, and maybe, but not necessarily, interprets what it was about.

    The Parts of Dreams:

    seltzer exploded out of its bottle, it splashed my shoes, little princess shoes,
    velvet, I was a child
   
    she was holding a candelabra, my sister, she was motioning me towards the cave
   
    a pear, just a single one, in an oak tree, hanging amidst thousands of acorn's
   
    my porcelain figurine, wearing a gold dress adorned with sparkling stars, she
    came to life and danced with me
   
    the Gypsy woman revealed a curse placed on our family long ago, she offered
    to remove it for my mother's memories
   
    a feather floated past my tower window, I jumped for it and fell and fell
   
    the sky was the color of copper, and as the sun set, its rays ripped it apart,
    exposing the night sky
   
    apothecary medicines, arranged on shelves that stretched far back into the
    shop, and jars in many shapes, their contents shown so bright they hurt my eyes
   
    Mercury and Venus and Mars and Jupiter and Saturn... all had their own
    opinions, and spoke them out with voices so loud I couldn't understand them
   
    sea grass waved in the tide, I swam beneath the water, and fish swam with me,
    then I saw that they were porpoises and so was I
   
    baskets and baskets of them, orange and yellow and red… I couldn't make them
    out and then they spilled and covered me
   
    their faces decorated the mountain like a Christmas tree and then the mountain
    rumbled, it was a volcano, and all the faces, like ornaments, broke free

    Future Challenges, Dates and Timing:

        Challenges will be posted slightly before 6am GMT which is 1am in New York City,
        6am in London, 2pm in Manila, 5pm in Sydney, and 7pm in Auckland.

        There will be 3 more challenges. The next (6th) challenge will be posted Thursday Jan 25.
        The 7th will post on Sunday, Jan 28; and the 8th on Wednesday, Jan 31.

        IISZ Team:
            rayheinrich: Head Chief Executive Head ( HCEH )
            lizzie: Senior Executive Vice President for Creativity and Chaos ( VPCC )
            quixilated: Executive Vice President for Narratives and Perplexity ( VPNP )
            vagabond: Executive Vice President for Quonundra and Qwertyness ( VPQQ )